The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-12

GOd anu even her kneellng prayer by the bed.
side dcrislon and Is no more 0t for her holy
companonshlp than filthy crow would be
1T companion for a robin or golden orlole.
Compromise with the world and surrender TO
=. conventionalties and II may let you alone,
bat all who will live cody In Christ Jesus
must suffer persecution. BE a theateI- gong,
card-playing, wine-drlnking, round-danclng
Christian and you may escape criticism and
social pressure. But be an up and down, out
and out follower of Christ and wording will
wink to wording as he speaks your name,
and you Will be put In many a doggerel anc
snubbed by those not worthy to blackcn your
oldest shoes When the bridge at Ashtabula
broke and let down the most OF the carload OF
passengers to instant death Mr. p. =. Bliss
was seated on one side OF the aisle OF the car
writing down Christian song which he was
composing, and on the other side group OF
OF men were playing cards Whose landing
place In eternity would you prefer-that OF p
T. Bliss, the gospel singer, or Of the card.
playersi
A great complaint comes from the theaters
about the ladies' high hats because they OBJ
struct the view OF the stage, and n lady re-
porter asked me the other day what thought
about 1t, and told her II the indescent pic
lures OF actresses In the show windows OF
Brooklyn ard New York were accurate pic
lures OF what goes on In many of the theaters
night after night, then II would be well II the
pletey obstruct the vision If professed
Christians 60 to such places during the week,
no one VIII ever prosecute them for their re-
ligion, for they have none aud they are the
joke Of hell But let them live a consecrated
and Christian life and they will soon run
against sneering opposition. For n comprom
Use Christian character an easy time now, but
for consecrated behavior, grmace and carca-
ture. For the body, thanks TO the God of free
America, there are now no swords or fiery
stakes but for the souls OF thousands OF the
good, In fgurative sense, rack and gibbel
and Torquemada. The symbol Of the dOmcs-
tic and social and private aud public suffering
OF great multitude OF Gods dear children,
pillars Of smoke.
SAVING SOULS FOR THE LORD.
What an exciting scene in India when during
the Sepoy rebellion reglmentof Highlander.
came up and found the dead body of one OF
General Wheelcr's daughters, who had been
insulted and mauled aud slain by the Sepoys.
20 great was the wrath against these murder
ers that the Scotch regiment sat down, and
cutting of the hair of this dead daughter OF
General Wheeler, they divided IL among then,
and each one co !nted the number of haEa
given him, and en- III took an oath, which vas
executed that fo each hair of the murdered
daughter they Vi lid dash out the LIE OF a
miserable Sepoy. Eut as we look orer the
story of those VIII. In all ages have suffered
for the truth, Will we leave vengcaIce to the
Lord, let us band jgether In one soemn vow.
one tremendous on h, after having counted the
host Of the martyr, that for each one OF those
glorious men anc women who ted for the
truth, an immorts: soul shall live, live with
God and live forever.
But as have al lady limited 10 the first sen.
tence In this sermon, nothing can be more
beautiful than the :gures Of smoke on Il clear
sky. You can see paat you will In the contour
Vplafilp nph ptaH
now troops OF hon .emen, now hammered pro-
cessions, now wins ed courlers, now Il black
angel oil wrath unC5r spear or sunshine turn
ed to nm angel Of llh., and nov from horizon
to horizon the air - a pcture gallery filled
with masterpieces o: which tod Is the artist,
clouds Of g. coke born In the sunrise,
aud evening clouds Of smoke laid In the burn
ished sepulchrcs of tpc sunset
The beauty OF th, TRANSPORTED smoke Is a
divine symbol OF the beauty OF the church.
The fairest OF jill tina fair Is abe. DO not call
those prosecutors OF rhom spoke the church.
They are the parasites OF the church, not the
church itself Her mission Ia To cover the
earth with SUPERNATURAL gladness, to open all
the prison doors to bAlsaIu oil the wounds, 10
moss all the graves, 10 butn up the night In the
Fireplace Of n great lnorning, TO change iron
handouts into diam nd eristets, TO turn the
whole race arount and whereas 10 faced
death, commanding u, Right about face for
heavenw Accordlls to the number OF the
spires OF the churcL.j In all our cities, towns
and neighborhoods Je the good homes, the
worldly properties Ana the pure morals aud
the happy souls.
THE CHUl::H BLESSING.
Meet me at any Gspot the world over. and
with my eyes closed Jake me lbs the hand and
lead me So that my :eot will not stumble, and
without my once locking down, or looking on
he level, take me Ia some high roof or tower
and let me see the taps OF the churches, and
will tell you the proportion Of suicides, OF
irsons, OF murders, OF thefts. According as
The churches ar. numerous are the crimes
lew. According as the churches are few the
,rimcs are numerous The most beautiful or
yanzation the world ever saw or ever will see
Is the mnch-maligned church-the friend OF
Ill good, the foe OF all evil, "fair as the moon
md clear as the sun" Beautiful In her au-
hOr, beautiful Ia her mission, the heroine Of
he century, the bride Of Christ, the queen
If the nations. There are hundreds Of kindly
Institutions, some caring for inebriates, some
Tor the crippled, some for the imbecilc, some
or the misled some for the blind, but the
church is the mother OF all these kindly In
There are asylums-American, oT
English, or Scotch, or Irish, or French, or
herman, or Italian, but the church spreads
her mantle over all these and will yet spread
/ over all nations. Her gates are beautiful,
ler songs are beautiful, her prayers are beau
lful, her conyocatons are beautiful, her work
s beautiful. All kings and warriors will vet
DOW down TO her affairs, all chains OF scrfdom
Dc shattered against her doorstep, all nations
will vet follow her leading. How amlablc are
by tabernacles! How sacred thy affairs How
glorious thy auditoriums! SO graceful, so
lspring. so grand; and rolling on and rolling
Up, we cry out IN regard to her: "Who Is she
hat cometh out Of the wilderness like pillars
" smoker
Men may desecrate IL, as Cromwell when he
stabbed his cavalry horses In ST. Paul's cathe-
lral; or break of the image OF Christ, rs did
he iconoclasts ia Yorkminster; or hurl
against II august literary antipathes, as did